Suburbs movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant suburbs movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, suspense, weird, interesting, clever and dark films and TV shows about / with suburbs, suburban life, storytelling, teenager, family relations, dialogue, husband wife relationship, youth, mentor and runaway plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as suburbs: The 'Burbs (1989), The Virgin Suicides (1999), Donnie Darko (2001), American Beauty (1999), Serial Mom (1994), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Unlawful Entry (1992), Vivarium (2019), Meadowlands (2007), Lemming (2005).

List of suburbs movies

 6.8
 90K
The 'Burbs (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, funny, black comedy, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: neighbor, suburbs, neighborhood, paranoia, investigation, obsession, nothing goes right, dark humor, fear, basement, suspicion, missing person ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada
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The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
Style: sexy, gothic, teen, sad, depressing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult, teen drama
Plot: suburbs, suicide, depression, suicide attempt, coming of age, overbearing parent, dysfunctional family, teenage life, suicidal, friendship, suburban life, sisters ...
Time: 70s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: detroit, michigan, yale university
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 8.0
 905K
Donnie Darko (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style: psychological, surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, imaginary friend, schizophrenia, psychology, time travel, insanity, parallel universe, suburbs, surrealism, time loop, trippy, schizophrenic ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, 2000s, future, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, america, usa, virginia, harvard university
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 8.3
 1.3M
American Beauty (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Style: melancholic, thought provoking, sexual, dark comedy, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, existentialism, age difference, obsession, loneliness, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, dysfunctional marriage, youth, adultery, suburbs ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place: usa, america, los angeles, iran
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 6.8
 38K
Serial Mom (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, cult classic, parody, witty ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: serial killer, dark humor, violence, housewife, satire, suburbs, female killer, murder, suburban life, psycho killer, psychotic woman, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 90s
Place: baltimore, usa, maryland
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Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
Style: dark comedy, cult classic, entertaining, humorous, black comedy ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens
Plot: professional killer, killer, hitman, gunfight, assassin, suburbs, contract killer, secretary, radio dj, high school reunion, small town, therapy ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 80s, 90s
Place: michigan, usa, detroit
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 6.4
 22K
Unlawful Entry (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops that answered their call. He helps them install the security system, and begins dropping by on short notice and unofficial patrol, and spends a lot of time discussing the ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, neo noir, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot: obsession, stalking, home invasion, vengeance, suburbs, police officer, voyeurism, psychopath, violence, police investigation, hostage, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, san francisco
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 5.9
 89K
Vivarium (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an ...
Style: surreal, suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: trapped, psychological torture, paradox, young couple, mysterious man, human experiment, suburbs, voyeurism, evil child, buying a house, evil wins, unhappy ending ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
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 6.8
 1K
Meadowlands (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A married couple and their teenage twins move to Meadowlands, a friendly and seemingly safe suburban town, to start a new life. Here, they will soon realize that secrets and mysteries are plentiful, and past is a difficult thing to bury.
Style: atmospheric, stylized, serious, realistic, cliffhanger ...
Plot: suburban life, suburbs, murder, secret, family relations, starting over, couple relations, family life, unrequited love, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, older man young girl relationship ...
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 6.7
 6K
Lemming (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of the deceased...
Style: serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
Plot: extramarital affair, housewife, cuckolded husband, suburbs, infidelity, suicide, love affair, dishonesty, couple relations, couples, suburban life, estranged couple ...
Place: south of france
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The Stepford Wives (1975)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The urban aspirant photographer Joanna Eberhart moves from Manhattan to Stepford, Connecticut with her family. Her husband Walter Eberhart decided to live in a calm suburb, but Joanna did not like the neighborhood with beautiful and perfect ...
Style: clever, psychological, disturbing, creepy, suspenseful ...
Plot: robot, feminism, small town, women's liberation, housewife, suburbs, utopia, conspiracy, paranoia, social commentary, missing person, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, connecticut, manhattan new york city, new england, new york
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 7.5
 121K
Little Children (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, melancholic, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: love affair, adultery, infidelity, passion, housewife, child abuse, small town, unfaithful wife, dysfunctional family, perversion, temptation, sexual pleasure ...
Time: y2k, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, usa, california
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The Looney Tunes Show (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: The Looney Tunes Show is an American animated sitcom which premiered May 3, 2011 on Cartoon Network. The show features characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoons updated for the 21st century. It is produced by Warner ...
Style: humorous, light, adult animation, exciting, tense ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, preschool
Plot: suburbs, looney tunes, friendship, goofy hero, bugs bunny, coyote, furry, buddies, disorder, dimwit, imaginary, unrequited love ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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 6.7
 154K
Monster House (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frightening secrets.
Style: scary, computer animated, 3d animation, teen, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, toddlers, family outing ...
Plot: halloween, haunted house, suburbs, children, ghost, neighbor, supernatural, monster, human versus monster, old dark house, babysitter, three friends ...
Time: 1930s, year 1983, year 1938, 80s, 20th century ...
Place: north america
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The Chumscrubber (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, bleak, black comedy, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, dark humor, suburbs, suicide, kidnapping, youth, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, satire, friendship, mistaken identity, high school ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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Beautiful People (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys creative director Simon Doonan. The series takes place in Reading, Berkshire, in 1997, where thirteen-year-old Simon Doonan and his best friend Kylie dream ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Plot: suburbs, friends, gay, lgbt, best friend, working class, family relations, youth, lifestyle, follow your dream, suburban life, teenage life ...
Time: 90s
Place: england, london, europe
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 7.3
 194K
Poltergeist (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Steve Freeling lives with his wife, Diane, and their three children, Dana, Robbie, and Carol Anne, in Southern California where he sells houses for the company that built the neighborhood. It starts with just a few odd occurrences, such as broken ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: kids, horror for children, adult
Plot: poltergeist, haunted house, supernatural, ghost, psychic, suburban life, suburbs, child in peril, children, parallel world, television, supernatural power ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place: california
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 5.1
 39K
Deck the Halls (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two neighbors have it out after one of them decorates his house for the holidays so brightly that it can be seen from space.
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, light, christmas classics ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, parents and children, neighbor, feud, small town, suburbs, christmas time, couple relations, dark humor, neighbor neighbor relationship, xmas ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: europe, england, massachusetts, latin america
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Surviving Christmas (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, he revisit his old childhood home in the hope of reliving some old holiday memories – but he finds that the house in ...
Style: humorous, feel good, funny, absurd, black comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas time, dysfunctional family, suburbs, christmas season, loneliness, new year, farce, xmas, looking for love, eccentric family ...
Time: year 2004
Place: illinois, chicago
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 5.8
 50K
Suburbicon (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, serious, sad, suspense ...
Plot: racism, murder, fear, suburbs, child in peril, dark secret, satire, riot, home invasion, twin sister, investigation, boy ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 90s, year 2017, year 1959
Place: persia
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 7.2
 34K
Suburgatory (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Single father George Altman is doing his best to raise his sixteen-year-old daughter Tessa in the big city. When he discovers a box of condoms in her bedroom, though, he decides the time has come to move her to a more wholesome and nurturing ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: teenage life, suburban life, suburbs, family relations, youth, everyday life, parents and children, single parent, social relations, fish out of water, society, lifestyle ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 7.9
 412K
WandaVision (2021)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
Style: sitcom, exciting, saga, funny, epic ...
Plot: superhero, witch, superheroine, suburbs, magic, supernatural power, supernatural, magical power, multiverse, suburban life, grief, comic book ...
Time: 1950s, 2020s, 90s, 2010s, 60s ...
Place: new jersey, north america
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 5.2
 2K
Beautiful (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Searing and luscious, "Beautiful" tells the story of Daniel, a shy and introverted 14 year old boy residing in Sunshine Hills, a suburb living in the grip of fear following the rumoured abductions of three teenage girls. Daniel's two ...
Style: suspense, scary, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: obsession, suburbs, youth, investigation, dishonesty, uncover truth, danger, teenage life, blind ambition, suburban life, teenager, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.7
 79K
Happiness (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from sources usually considered dark or evil.
Style: black comedy, controversial, cynical, depressing, independent film ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, rape, pedophilia, pedophile, dark humor, satire, therapist, depression, suburbs, unsettling, unhappiness, social satire ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: usa, new jersey
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Ordinary People (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having ...
Style: depressing, realistic, crying, sentimental, compassionate ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, therapy, suicide attempt, suicide, grief, coming of age, depression, psychiatrist, alienation, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, loner ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, houston texas, middle east ...
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 6.6
 41K
Gummo (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
Style: disturbing, cult classic, experimental, controversial, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: white trash, suburbs, sister sister relationship, youth, sexual abuse, adolescence, unsettling, teenage boy, abuse, violence, animal abuse, coming of age ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: ohio, usa, america
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Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is a contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Roseanne is outwardly a perfect and popular teen. However, her image is hiding the abuse at her stepfather's hands, and she decides to ...
Style: disturbing, serious, psychological, clever, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: rape, obsession, sexualized violence, murder, suburbs, dysfunctional family, high school, guilt, crime and punishment, friendship, protective male, youth ...
Time: year 2000, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, sad, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: alien, friendship, childhood, children, coming of age, ufo, friendly alien, space and aliens, chase, boy, child protagonist, bicycle ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1982, 90s, future
Place: california, usa, persia, los angeles
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The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers' backs to meet with the donor. Life becomes so much more interesting ...
Style: sexy, touching, sexual, independent film, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: lesbian, gender, coming of age, lgbtq, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, glbt, lgbt, sapphic, family relations, biological father, lesbian couple ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, buenos aires argentina, southern california, california
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Far from Heaven (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
Style: sincere, emotional, visually stunning, stylized, depressing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: couples, homosexuality, infidelity, gay husband, racism, lgbtq, crumbling marriage, housewife, closeted homosexual, forbidden love, gay, divorce ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 2000s, year 1958, year 2002 ...
Place: new england, connecticut, usa, miami, baltimore ...
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